Quotes of: Misfortune Keyword

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

William McFee

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

W. Somerset Maugham

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

The Will to Power

No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity

Dialogues and Letters

But even Superman can be broken. Self-destruction, too, is a kind of kryptonite.

Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Stefan Zweig

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Theodore Roosevelt

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Bryant H. McGill

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Epicurus

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Chanakya

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Gideon Welles

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Alexander Herzen

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham